1529. More, Dyaloge, II. ix. 57 b/2. Standyng as they do vnknowen and vndyscerned.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Captain, IV. iv. Bring me to a place Where undiscerned of her self I may Feed my desiring eyes.
1653. Holcroft, Procopius, Vand. Wars, II. 41. The plot was undiscerned by any: For though many were engaged in it, yet none … revealed it.
1703. Rowe, Ulysses, II. i. Warriors from my Fleet Who undiscern’d … and by Stealth Late came ashore.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 242. If his word … reveal Truths undiscern’d but by that holy light, Then all is plain.
1819. Shelley, Peter Bell 3rd, V. iii. But he in shadows undiscerned Trusted.
absol. 1898. Meredith, Odes Pr. Hist., 16. She had … Forgot her faith in the Great Undiscerned.
Hence Undiscernedly adv.
1660. N. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur. (1682), II. 61. The traiterous dispositions … in their own breasts; which though they might lurk more undiscernedly before, will then be sure to shew what they are.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., V. x. 185. Death has undiscernedly stoll’n upon them, and unawares intruded into their Studies.
1734. Falle, Jersey (ed. 2), vi. 243. Others lavish theirs [sc. grants] out so wantonly and undiscernedly, that to be ev’n loaded with them is no argument of Merit.
